As NIU and the world around us deals with a global pandemic, artists continue to find ways to express themselves. In the College of Visual and Performing arts the learning and teaching hasn’t stopped, it’s simply evolved to meet the needs and limitations of the situation. Over the coming days, we’ll be featuring how NIU students, alumni and faculty in the arts are continuing to do what they love.
David Reninger
Major: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, School of Art and Design, class of 1985
“I started, the Prosaic Series,. The Proasic Series, is a group of paintings that celebrates things in our daily lives.
I have chosen to raise everyday objects into the poetic space of painting by rendering them in the language of paint.”
Beans (unfinished), 16″ x 20″ oil on panel
Glass, 16″ x 20″ oil on panel
“I am a contemporary artist who paints. I believe in showing the joy and contradictions of life in my art. I have been painting for over 30 years. I use my knowledge of the medium to convey insights about our life on this planet. I studied painting at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Northern Illinois University.”
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